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It has been fashionable to describe electrochemistry as a
discipline at the interface between the branches of chemistry and
many other sciences. A perusal of the table of contents will affirm
that view. Electrochemistry finds applications in all branches of
chemistry as well as in biology, biochemistry, and engineering;
electrochemistry gives us batteries and fuel cells, electroplating
and electrosynthesis, and a host of industrial and technological
applications which are barely touched on in this book. However, I
will maintain that electrochemistry is really a branch of physical
chemistry. Electrochemistry grew out of the same tradition which
gave physics the study of electricity and magnetism. The reputed
founders of physical chemistry-Arrhenius, Ostwald, and van't
Hoff-made many of their contributions in areas which would now be
regarded as electrochemistry. With the post-World War II capture of
physical chemistry by chemical physicists, electrochemists have
tended to retreat into analytical chemistry, thus defining
themselves out of a great tradition. G. N. Lewis defined physical
chemistry as "the study of that which is interesting." I hope that
the readers of this book will find that electrochemistry qualifies.
The new edition of this classic text offers a comprehensive and
accessible introduction to electrochemistry. It assumes a
background in chemical thermodynamics and kinetics at the level of
a standard undergraduate physical chemistry course, and it is
intended for use as a text for a first course in electrochemistry
or as a self-study book for chemists and scientists in related
fields. The clear and concise text is rich with examples from the
literature illustrating theory and electrochemical applications in
analytical, organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry.
Exercises at the end of each chapter extend and amplify this
approach. The book contains extensive references to books and
monographs, review literature, contemporary examples of
electrochemical applications and historically important papers.
Extensive discussion of voltammetric methods includes
chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, cyclic voltammetry and
steady-state voltammetric methods. Two chapters are devoted to
organic, inorganic and organometallic reactions initiated by
oxidation or reduction with electroanalytical methods. Many
technological applications of thermodynamics are examined,
including batteries and fuel cells, corrosion, electroplating and
other metal finishing techniques, reduction of ores and
purification of metals, and electrochemical production of inorganic
and organic chemicals. Many sections in the new edition have been
reworked to improve their clarity and accuracy, and new material
has been added on microelectrodes, cyclic voltammetry and organic
electrosynthesis. The chapter on the mechanisms of electrode
processes now incorporates applications of microelectrode methods
and emphasizes thestrenths and limitations of various other
voltammetric techniques.
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